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Won't eat out of dog dishes We have only had Gizmo for 2 almost three days and he must have been fed people food from the table before he was in the shelter. We were told to feed him twice a day and we went and got the same food the shelter was using. We plan to gradually change him to puppy food. We put the food down and showed him where it was. He ate and drank as long as we were standing there but stop when we leave. As of now he still hasn't finished last nights food. BUT if you bring him a hand full of food he will gobble it up. What do we do just leave the food in the dish until he eats it or pick it up after an hour or two. We do not like begging dogs and do not feed human food. Any suggestions from any one on how to solve this problem. I just love him he is a sweetie... Oh before you ask we cleaned the bowls extra good so he could not tell they were used by another dog before. |
My Ziva was spoiled from the beginning (she was the runt) and has never eaten from a bowl. We found by accident when the kids were playing with her kibble that she would eat off the floor so we put her food on a "side" dish, like you would get in a restaurant. She is 2 1/2 now and just does not like to get her face messy, even if she is starving and it is an extra special dinner (boiled chicken and rice mixed in her kibble) she still eats like a princess! Her new sister Abby, on the other hand, just dives right in! |
My lil one will drink from her water dish, but won't touch any food placed in her bowl. When she was a puppy I made a fleece tube that is about 1" round and 8" long in which I put her kibble...now that is the only way she will eat her food...I think she enjoys working on getting it out :animal36 |
When we first put a collar with tags on our little Gizmo he would not eat from the dish, we figured out it was the tags hitting his dish. He got used to it. Good luck |
Romeo has never eaten from a dog bowl but uses regular dinner plates. He also does not like his food to be mixed so I have to keep everything separate. Romeo always eats his cheese first, followed by broccoli, then lettuce and finally carrots. When that is done he makes his way to the other plate which has chicken and rice. If I try to put everything on one plate, he will sniff around and walk away! I find that the usual stainless steel dishes have a strong odor and figured if I can't stand the smell then Romeo certainly won't hence my quick transition to dinner plates. Good luck with your baby! |
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My pups like to eat out of a larger bowl so that there is a blank spot on the bowl where there isn't any food. They have never liked eating out of a small bowl where it is all in a pile with no blank spot. I don't know why. They won't eat canned food unless I put little spoons of it with spaces between the little teaspoon piles. Not sure why but that's the way they both like it. |
I had that problem when I first brought Lilly home. I discovered that she doesn't like the metal bowls regardless of if she's got her collar (with tags) on or not. I have to use the plastic bowls. Her water bowl is a large bowl while her food bowl is smaller. I feed both my dogs in their prospective "dens" (RJ's being a crate and Lilly's being her playpen) and I leave their food bowls with them for 15 minutes. Whatever they haven't eaten gets picked up and offered to them the following meal. Lilly hasn't had a problem eating all her food since the first week of bringing her home. I feed twice a day at the same time every day. Lilly is good about letting me know when it's time to eat ;) |
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